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National Gallery of Art Postage and Fees Paid Washington, D.C. 20565 National Gallery of Art Official Business Third Class Bulk Rate Penalty for Private Use, $300 Return Postage Guaranteed CALENDAR OF EVENTS May 1980 Painting Sunday Sunday of the Week Tours Films Lectures Concerts MONDAY, Van der Weyden Small French Paintings The Secret World of The Renascence of 37th American April 28 Portrait of a Lady from the Bequest of Ailsa OdUon Redon (30 min.) Nineteenth-Century Music Festival (Andrew W. Mellon Mellon Brace and Other Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Italian Art Charles through Collection) National Gallery &6:00; Sun. 1:00 Fierro, Pianist Speaker: SUNDAY, Collections West Building Tues. through Sat. 12:00 East Building Roberta J. M. Olson Tues. through Sat. 1:00 East May 4 &2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Auditorium Professor of Art History Garden Court 7:00 Sun. 2:30 Wheaton West Building East Building College Norton, Massachusetts Gallery 39 Ground Floor Lobby Introduction to the West Sunday 4:00 Building's Collection East Building Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Auditorium Sun. 1:00 West Building Rotunda Introduction to the East Building's Collection Mon. through Sat. 3:00 Sun. 5:00 East Building Ground Floor Lobby MONDAY, Johnson American Light: The Edgar Degas (26 min.) Composition vs. 37th American May 5 The Brown Family Luminist Movement Monet (6 min.) Decoration in Music Festival (Gift of David Edward 1850-1875 Tues. through Sat. 12:30 Nonobjective Art through Finley and Margaret Tues. through Sat. 1:00 &6:00; Sun. 1:00 Helen Boatwright, SUNDAY, Eustis Finley) Sun. 2:30 Speaker: Soprano East Building Kenneth May 11 West Building Rotunda C. Lindsay Dorothy Bales, Violinist Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Auditorium Professor of Art History Corinne Slavin, Cellist &2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Introduction to the West State University of Allan Sly, Pianist Building's Collection New York, Binghamton West Building Ernst Bacon, Pianist Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Gallery 68 Sunday 4:00 Sun. 1:00 West Building East Garden Court 7:00 West Building Rotunda East Building Auditorium Introduction to the East Building's Collection Mon. through Sat. 3:00 Sun. 5:00 East Building Ground Floor Lobby MONDAY, Hoppner In Praise of America: Mary Cassatt The Painters' Secret 37th American May 12 The Hoppner Children American Decorative Arts Impressionist from Methods: Glazes, Music Festival (Widener Collection) 1650-1830 Philadelphia (30 min.) Scumbles, and Velaturas through Tues. through Sat. 1:00 Tues., Wed., Thurs. & Sat. Virginia Eskin, Pianist Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Speaker: SUNDAY, Sun. 2:30 12:30 & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Arthur De Costa &2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 Instructor of Painting West Building East Building East Garden Court 7:00 May 18 East Building and Drawing West Building Ground Floor Lobby Auditorium Pennsylvania Academy Gallery 58 Introduction to the West of the Fine Arts, Building's Collection Philadelphia Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Sun. 1:00 Sunday 4:00 West Building Rotunda East Building Introduction to the East Auditorium Building's Collection Mon. through Sat. 3:00 Sun. 5:00 East Building Ground Floor Lobby MONDAY, Chambers American Decorative Picasso, Artist of Post-Impressionism: 37th American May 19 Felucca off Gibraltar Arts: Watercolor the Century (53 min.) Cross-Currents in Music Festival (Gift of Edgar William Renderings from the Tues. through Thurs., Sat, European Painting National Gallery through and Bernice Chrysler Index of American 12:30 & 6:00; Sun. 1:00 Orchestra SUNDAY, Garbisch) Design Speaker: East Building Alan Bowness Richard Bales, Conductor Tues. through Sat. 1:00 May 25 Tues. through Sat. 12:00 Auditorium Elizabeth Stevens, Pianist Sun. 2:30 Director &2:00; Sun. 3:30 & 6:00 The Tate Gallery, London East Building West Building West Building Ground Floor Lobby Sunday 4:00 East Garden Court 7:00 Gallery 66 Introduction to the West East Building Building's Collection Auditorium Mon. through Sat. 11:00 Sun. 1:00 West Building Rotunda Introduction to the East Building's Collection Mon. through Sat. 3:00 Sun. 5:00 East Building Ground Floor Lobby National Gallery of Art American Music Festival Summer evening hours are in effect through Labor Day, September 1. The Gallery is open Washington, B.C. 20565 Through June 1 Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; 7:00 p.m. Sunday hours remain the same throughout the East Garden Court year: 12 noon to 9 p.m. The Buffet is open West Building Monday through Saturday 10 to 11 a.m. for coffee service, with full service 11 a.m. to The Gallery's 37th annual American Music 7:30 p.m. The Cascade and Terrace Cafes, The Gallery is located between 3rd and 7th Festival continues through June 1, concluding both featuring waitress service, are open Streets, Northwest, on Constitution Avenue. with the National Gallery Orchestra, Richard 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Monday through The telephone number for all offices is (202) Bales, Conductor, and William Black, Pianist. Saturday. Sunday hours for all restaurants 737-4215. This annual festival offers works of American are 12 noon to 6 p.m. composers dating from colonial times to the present day. Sign-language interpreters accompany the Gallery staff lecturers on Thursday and Saturday tours and Painting of the Week talks announced in the Calendar. EXHIBITIONS May 1980 Post-Impressionism: The year 1880 marked the beginning of a Cross-Currents in European quarter century when European and American artists began to reject the tenets of pure and American Painting, impressionism as too limiting. Even as artists 1880-1906 responded to the impressionists' bold brushwork, their use of high-key color, and May 25 through their direct recording of their visual September 1 impressions of nature, many insisted that Concourse level a painter had to create pictorial structure East Building and impose his own personality on his work. This opened an extraordinary number of painterly possibilities for artists in Europe Approximately 300 paintings by the post- and the United States, who then strove in impressionists and their contemporaries in many different ways to achieve a more Europe and the United States have been imaginative and subjective form of expression brought together in a comprehensive survey ism than had been found in the naturalistic which places the four towering French treatment of the impressionists. masters van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and Cezanne in the context of other artists work Lecture and Films: On Sunday, May 25, ing not only in France, but also in Belgium, Alan Bowness, Director of the Tate Holland, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Gallery, London, will speak on post- Italy, Spain, England, Ireland, Scotland and Portrait of Mademoiselle Helene Rouart. DEGAS impressionism in Europe. Films on several the United States. Private Collector of the artists in the exhibition will be shown throughout the month. (Check listings for details.) American Light: Luminism was virtually ignored in American The Luminist Movement art history through the 19th and early 20th centuries and recognition of the movement (1850-1875) has only existed in the nomenclature for the past 30 years. Although one of the most Through June 15 inconclusively studied areas of American art, Ground floor the works are of a quality and interest as West Building high as any in 'the national school. Tour: The Tour of the Week beginning This critically acclaimed exhibition offers Tuesday, May 6, will be devoted to the a fresh and comprehensive examination of the exhibition. In addition, a 40-minute 19th-century American school of landscape recorded tour, narrated by John painting, now commonly called luminism. Wilmerding, the Gallery's curator of Over 160 paintings, 49 drawings and water- American art and organizer of the colors, and 47 photographs have been brought Sunrise on the Marshes (detail). HEADE exhibition, is available at the entrance to together to concentrate for the first time on Gift of the Viola E. Bray Charitable Trust show for a nominal fee. the full scope of the luminist movement. Flint Institute of Arts In Praise of America: This exhibition of 83 exceptionally fine Masterworks of American examples of American furniture and decorative arts from the mid-17th through Decorative Arts, early-19th centuries reviews the grace and 1650-1830 talent of American design and craftsmanship during this country's first 200 years and Through July 6 brings new information in the field to the Upper level visitor. This is the first time the Gallery has East Building devoted an exhibition to this subject. The exhibition is installed chronologically and presents each object as a work of art in its own right, rather than as part of a period room ensemble. Tour: Beginning Tuesday, May 13, the Tour of the Week will be on the exhibition. Chest over Drawers (Check Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association listing for details.) Photograph: Richard Cheek American Decorative Arts: 79 watercolor renderings, selected from Renderings from the Index the Gallery's Index of American Design, complement the decorative arts exhibition of American Design In Praise of America, providing illustrations of furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass and Through July 6 textiles stylistically and regionally close to Ground floor those in the In Praise of America show. East Building Tour: Beginning Tuesday, May 20, the Tour of the Week will be devoted to the Chest exhibition. (Check listing for details.) Index of American Design National Gallery of Art Italian Drawings The first of its kind in Washington, this 1780-1890 exhibition of 102 drawings attempts to survey the evolution and achievements of Italian Through May 11 draftsmanship in the period 1780 to 1890. Prints and Drawings Galleries This period was infused with a spirit of Ground floor change in the political as well as the artistic West Building sphere.